{"id":240976,"date":"2025-10-26T08:28:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240976\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T08:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:28:15","slug":"nikola-jokics-triple-double-lifts-nuggets-over-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240976\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikola Jokic’s triple-double lifts Nuggets over Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER \u2014 Nikola Jokic had his second triple-double of the season despite a quiet shooting night, Jamal Murray scored 23 points, and the Denver Nuggets<\/a> beat the Phoenix Suns<\/a> 133-111 in their home opener on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Jokic finished with 15 assists, 14 rebounds and 14 points on just 5 of 8 shooting. His first field goal attempt came with 2:26 left in the second quarter. He notched the triple-double on a turnaround hook shot with 57 seconds in the period.<\/p>\n

Jokic has 166 career triple-doubles during the regular season, third behind Russell Westbrook (203) and Oscar Robertson (181), and 18 more in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Devin Booker had 31 points and Grayson Allen scored 17 for the Suns, who were playing the second game of a tough back-to-back. They tipped off Saturday night 20 hours after losing by 27 to the Los Angeles Clippers and didn\u2019t have centre Mark Williams, who was out with a right knee injury.<\/p>\n

Phoenix trailed by 20 early in the third quarter but went on a 13-2 run to cut the deficit to 83-74. The Nuggets scored the next 11 points and took a 100-83 lead into the fourth.<\/p>\n

Murray, who had 25 points and 10 assists in the loss at Golden State, sparked Denver at the start of the final period with a three-pointer that made it 108-86. He also beat the buzzer at the end of the first quarter with a 55-foot pullup jumper.<\/p>\n

The Suns got within 110-99 midway through the fourth but the Nuggets answered with a 14-2 run to put it away.<\/p>\n

Aaron Gordon followed his career-high 50-point game Thursday night with 17 points and was 1 of 6 from deep.<\/p>\n

Suns: Visit the Utah Jazz on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Nuggets: At the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 Nikola Jokic had his second triple-double of the season despite a quiet shooting night, Jamal Murray…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-240976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}